Java XML Document Create createDocument(String rootNodeName)

Description

This method creates a new Document Object.

License

Apache License

Exception

Parameter	Description
Exception	an exception

Declaration

public static Document createDocument(String rootNodeName) throws Exception 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   ww  w .  j  a  v  a  2 s.  c  om*/
 * Copyright 2013 Keith D Swenson
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 *
 * Contributors Include: Shamim Quader, Sameer Pradhan, Kumar Raja, Jim Farris,
 * Sandia Yang, CY Chen, Rajiv Onat, Neal Wang, Dennis Tam, Shikha Srivastava,
 * Anamika Chaudhari, Ajay Kakkar, Rajeev Rastogi
 */

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class Main {
    /**
     * This method creates a new Document Object.
     * Pass in the name of the root node, since you ALWAYS need
     * a root node, and attaching this to the document is not like other children.
     * Retrieve the root element with the standard getDocumentElement.
     * @return
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public static Document createDocument(String rootNodeName) throws Exception {
        DocumentBuilderFactory dfactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        dfactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        dfactory.setValidating(false);
        DocumentBuilder bldr = dfactory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = bldr.newDocument();
        Element rootEle = doc.createElement(rootNodeName);
        doc.appendChild(rootEle);
        return doc;
    }

    public static Document createDocument(String rootNodeName, String schema) throws Exception {
        DocumentBuilderFactory dfactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        dfactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        dfactory.setValidating(false);
        DocumentBuilder bldr = dfactory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = bldr.newDocument();
        Element rootEle = doc.createElement(rootNodeName);
        rootEle.setAttribute("xmlns:xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
        rootEle.setAttribute("xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation", schema);
        doc.appendChild(rootEle);
        return doc;
    }
}

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